Reproductive tourism: A poetic inquiry

This paper employs poetic inquiry as a form of interpretive and aesthetic inquiry into the meaning and experience of reproductive tourism. The context is an ethnographic study of the fertility services industry in Cancun. Drawing upon interviews with the owner of a medical tourism company and a doctor who runs a large fertility clinic, we adopt varied strategies of poetic inquiry as a means of listening deeply to the stories of participants. In particular, we ask who gets to tell the story, how is the story told and why does it matter? This is profoundly personal and political work. As the poems and our reflections on them reveal, we remain uncomfortable deriving any straightforward scholarly conclusions but rather see ourselves as engaged in work that is intended to be both critical and creative.

本研究采用诗性探究（poetic inquiry）作为解释性与审美性探究的范式，以探析生殖旅游（reproductive tourism）的意义与体验。研究背景为坎昆（Cancun）生殖服务产业的民族志研究（ethnographic study）。本研究通过访谈某医疗旅游公司所有者与某大型生殖诊所的执业医师，运用多元诗性探究策略，以深度聆听研究参与者的故事。具体而言，我们探讨了三个核心问题：谁有权讲述故事？故事如何被讲述？以及讲述该故事的意义何在？这项研究兼具深刻的个人性与政治性维度。正如诗作与我们对其的反思所揭示的那样，我们并不敢贸然得出任何直白的学术结论，而是将自身定位为开展兼具批判性与创造性的研究工作。